Man arrested in drug deal already charged in 2012 murder

Updated 9:20 pm, Thursday, August 7, 2014

Police are investigating a shooting outside a fast food restaurant in southwest Houston.

Police are investigating a shooting outside a fast food restaurant in southwest Houston.

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Man arrested in drug deal already charged in 2012 murder

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A man arrested outside a fast food restaurant in southwest Houston following a violent drug deal nearby where two children were wounded is the prime suspect in a local rapper's slaying two years ago at that same location.

Houston police identified Jordan Q. Wilson, 21, as one of two men taken into custody Wednesday after undercover narcotics officers spotted them running from the scene of a car crash toward a McDonald's restaurant along the 10700 block of Beechnut.

Wilson was free on a $50,000 bond after he was charged with murder in the May 2012 death of Toyurean Young, 20. He is accused of shooting Young, a rival rapper, several times in the same McDonald's parking lot where he was arrested Wednesday. That case is still pending.

Houston police believe Wilson, along with Reginald Smith, 19, were involved in a drug deal about 4 p.m. Wednesday with at least two other people in the parking lot of an H-E-B supermarket about six blocks away along Beechnut.

HPD investigators said Wilson, Smith and another man were in a Buick Sentry parked next to a large white extended cab pickup.

Two children, 9 and 7, were on the sidewalk near the supermarket when a man got out of the pickup and began shooting toward the people in the Buick, police said.

The girl was struck in the right thigh while the boy was grazed. The brother and sister were the only ones hurt at the scene.

The boy was later treated and released from the hospital. His sister was flown by a LifeFlight helicopter to the Texas Medical Center. She was last listed in stable condition, police said.

After the shooting in the H-E-B parking lot, both vehicles raced away in opposite directions along Beechnut.

Soon after, the Buick collided with a white Nissan sedan in front of the McDonald's restaurant.

Houston police said Wilson, Smith and a third man, who remains at large, climbed out of their wrecked car and ran.

On Thursday, Wilson and Smith were in the Houston police jail. Each faces a charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon. Wilson also is facing a felony marijuana possession charge, officials said.

Police are continuing to search for a Hispanic man with facial tattoos who is thought to have been the man whose stray rounds struck the children during the suspected drug deal. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-TIPS.